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RBS - Direct Line Conveyancing Panel: Recently Asked Questions
Please note that most ‘less usual searches’ (as described in the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook) are not optional as far as RBS - Direct Line are concerned if they are ‘appropriate’. Most lenders will not require environmental searches (you should Check Part 2 of UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook to be sure), but you are obliged to explain risks and availability to the borrower.
Ground stability, Plansearch,flood searches as well as the searches listed in the question are optional – but only to the extent that you have allowed the borrower client to make an informed choice. Regardless of whether there is a mortgage, If you have not advised the client that these (and other) searches are available and what risks they cover, then you will be liable if the client suffers loss through not conducting one. Is this covered within your Terms of Engagement or Report on Title?
A leading search provider lists over 65 conveyancing searches – do you know what all of them are and when they may be relevant? If you are unsure as to which searches are appropriate based on location call your search provider or call one of the leading search companies such as Searchflow.
- Number of conveyancing cases by lender
- Buy to Let transactions
- Disclosure/Notification to Lender analysis indicating frequency and nature of disclosures - to include benchmarking analysis against aggregate data
- The percentage of the firm’s business which is conveyancing (broken down into sale/purchase and remortgage)
- Average time frame to send deeds to the lender (calculated from completion date or title registration)
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